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Thread #2790   Message #1810102
Posted By: Haruo
15-Aug-06 - 02:28 AM
Thread Name: songs about abortion
Subject: RE: songs about abortion
Kind of tangential, but there's a play currently being staged (world premiere) at Seattle's ACT (A Contemporary Theatre), entitled Mitzi's Abortion. I went to see it last Saturday, mainly because the reviews indicated it was somehow also about Esperanto. The plot involves a not unwanted pregnancy; not planned, but not unwanted, which goes off its tracks when the fetus turns out, in the second trimester, to be anencephalic. St. Thomas Aquinas is a major character.

Mrs. Haruo and I really enjoyed it, thought it did a good job of showing the complexity of some of the aspects of abortion that are taken for granted, and yes, it has a strong Esperanto component. There are two songs in the play, both sung in Esperanto. Neither is original. The first is an Esperanto version of "Those Were the Days, My Friend", the second of "Somewhere over the rainbow".

Haruo